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“Submission is total.” A scrambled satellite signal sets the tone for the mixed messages of fundamentalism and politics. – The original images were recorded in 1995 as they appeared on a digitally scrambled two hour broadcast.

Using a variety of animation techniques, this short, non-linear work questions aspects of the dominant origination myth.

This piece addresses the astonishing rate of transformation in the contemporary Chinese cityscape, presenting an ironic vision of Chinese architecture out of control. I have taken buildings of the most well known architectural projects from the Beijing skyscape and reconstructed them so they become an undoable spectacle. The Chinese Government is deliberately producing awe-inspiring architecture to persuade and convince foreign observers of their hyper-modernist perspective. More importantly, while visiting Beijing it became evident that the Communist Party is also deliberately using architecture to persuade and convince their national audience of the Party’s insightful perspective on their own future.

The second thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.

Two male blow-up dolls become puppets in this short. Not only is one of the men out of air, but both of them are tragically out of synch with one another.

A single gal venturing into a bar finds a groove all on her own.

Mirrors of the Cosmos traces a route through the light fields of four plants and one mineral, flowing freely through their terra incognita topography. The luminous imprints generated on film in an EM field roll up cosmic configurations in their rays.

"My father died four years ago. Over a period of 16 years, he wrote me several letters that he never gave me and that I got when I went back to Colombia to bury him. I've kept the letters but have not been able to read any of them. So I asked Lorena to read them to me while I videotape her." - Juana Awad

"This work emerges from my research into the relationship between the actor and the character; what is the diving line? What are the elements that make them what they are? When does the self seep through the character? When does the self seep through the performer? When does the self seep through our daily life roles? This video documents what happens when Oriana sits in front of the mirror to look into her eyes. I have asked her to look at herself in the privacy of her home and let herself just be until the private begins to seep through her mask." - Juana Awad

When sculptor John Greer and filmmaker Stewart Applegath began shooting, they had no destination, only a desire to journey together in a row boat with camera in hand. Over six years, they rowed a fair distance. breakSurface documents these travels, and the extent to which Greer’s world is leavened with debilitating anxiety. Greer’s powerful sculpture is visually simple, conceptually complex, but silent; he identifies with Jonathan Swift’s "man of objects" who lays out things, not words, to be understood. Applegath, however, doesn’t make this film to replace words, but by embracing them.

This experimental animated short dissects the Earth's surface and soil. Filmmaker Alex Mackenzie uses a specially built film exposure device to study the insect world, with remarkable results. Living insects are rendered as photograms on the surface of film stock, pulsating and teeming with life.

Explores the decay of memory and the filmstrip using super 8mm footage taken by the filmmake'’s father.

Charlie, content coasting through life in small town Canada, wastes his days drinking with friends that he has little in common with. He dreams of being a successful musician, but his complete lack of drive prevents any progress. When he meets Sarah, who recently moved to town from the city, she opens his eyes to a world of possibilities. Reluctant to change, Charlie is forced to address the roadblocks in his life as the worlds of his past failures and his newly blossoming relationship collide.

Abbott reflects on her unfortunate experience with childhood love.

PATCHING is the metaphoric intermingling of a journey, a flat tire, a break-up and tips for getting back on the road. PATCHING is the second tape in a series known as BICYCLE DIARIES.

Short animation by Nicolas Brault

Les Panthères Roses (The Pink Panthers) confront Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The year 2004 marks the 35th anniversary of the 1969 New York riots at Stonewall Inn.

"Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau's presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist." - Lise Beaudry

The film is a meditation into fantasy and the solitude of love. Hand processed film and advanced editing give "Her" an ephemeral and timeless quality which illustrates the intensity of the subject matter.

Setareh Mohammadi investigates issues of displacement, immigration, gender and status in the lives of two individuals, Quvi and Froogh.

Montreal’s vibrant, diverse and glamourous queer community expresses its unity in GROOVE by swingin’ through the cha cha of love.

Punk As Fuck Video Fanzine is a desperate attempt by ambitious artists to define for ourselves what is Punk As Fuck.

The caustic I Love You is about falling in love, getting dumped and those three little words.

Diamond’s grainy experimental film is the first in a series that tackles issues of sexuality with a fearless approach. Navigating the psychological manifestations of a hybrid gender identity, Diamond explores issues of body and mind capturing the complex nature of his topic.

Rancour is about abuse in a queer relationship. With a punk sensibility and soundtrack, the artist conveys being trapped in an emotionally abusive relationship while living in a culture bent on celebration and positive images. Mainstream queer culture and queer media are loathe to discuss any dirty little secrets under the rainbow. Rancour dares to explore the interrelations between fear, shame, complicity, rage, silence, hatred, and romantic love.

Using a Mayan coin to travel through time, a wisecracking young explorer travels to the future where he finds Earth an apocalyptic wasteland besieged by neo-Nazis and mutants. A regional SOV film made in Ontario by a local cast.

Created with the ‘anamorphic Boyétizeur’, built in 1974, this experimental video offers an alternative representation of the human face as an anthropological source of story-telling, imagination, and emotion. Set to profound music, it offers a hyper-sensitive vision of the living.

This documentary examines the history and current reality of Toronto’s Flemingdon Park. Now a subsidized housing project, it was built in 1961 as a trendy urban utopia. A decade later it was sold, and Flemingdon became home to refugees and new immigrants. Once a model of urban planning, Flemingdon Park's flip side is a history of violence and racism that residents have fought to overcome. Yet despite challenges, the community succeeds in making people from around the world feel at home in a different kind of utopia–one where differences are celebrated and new visions are possible.

Wake Up Screaming is a one-of-a-kind, behind-the-scenes look at the Vans Warped Tour through the eyes of Texas-farm-boy-turned-punk-rock-road-warrior Jason Bayless. Bayless, along with extreme documentary filmmakers David Bergthold of Blockhead Skateboards and pro skateboarder Laban Pheidias, was granted exclusive access to all aspects of the tour. Follow peta2's Jason and crew as they spend nine weeks traveling through 48 cities, rubbing elbows with the hottest bands of today and hundreds of punk rock all-stars.

M is a film of assemblage, juxtaposition and manipulation of animated structures. Small architectures appear and overlap. Brief nebulas arise, the most complex structures sometimes recalling constellations and other stellar clusters. This abstract film shows the results of a year of visual and technical researches. Hand-drawn animations were scanned, manipulated and combined. The resulting images were printed on paper and reworked, then put in relation according to their level of complexity and the movements which constitute them.

"An abstract exploration of the tension surrounding women and stereotypical representations of their knowledge. The film was created from footage shot at Phil Hoffman's independent imaging retreat in Ontario as well as from footage shot in Vancouver (where I had given myself the challenge of shooting 100 feet of film every month). All of the footage was hand-processed, and some of it was contact printed by hand and treated in baths of potassium ferricyanide. The final film was created through various optical printing techniques." — Amanda Dawn Christie

Filmed in Fingal’s Cave, a dramatic sea cave almost an hour’s journey by sea from the Island of Mull, over the course of seven separate visits. The towering sculpted columnar walls and roof were long held to be man-made, or created by giants, or held up as proof of a divine creator. One myth suggested that the cave was the abode of a nine-headed sea monster, another that the Devil himself were buried beneath the island. The last inhabitants of Staffa, around 1790, left the island after the pot on their stove shook so violently during a storm one night, that they believed “nothing but the devil could have shook it that way.” It can be a wild, moody and inhospitable place.

Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and man are held together within the sustaining dichotomy of beginnings and endings.

A beggar imagines himself sitting at the edge of a maelstrom, looking inward at a vortex, observing beings – demonic forms, ghosts, animals, humans – first rising, and then falling through the vortex: all of them, he realizes have the character they do because of his evanescent mental states. What is seen is never made of anything but imagination. Beyond that lies nothingness.

[16:00 | Super 16mm – HD | Colour | Stereo | 2008] An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun-bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence. Traveling to forgotten towns and channeled through old family photographs the camera catalogs the haunting remnants of the past, frail monuments and communities laid bare, broken under economic collapse. Under the weight of the prairie skies a visceral, personal encounter is revealed in the solace of open space.

A short visual study of repeating layers, dissolving forms reemerge and return.

Experimental short film by Jean-Claude Bustros

Death in the Garden of Paradise is an intensely personal meditation on the murder of the filmmaker's father and sister in Lahore by an unknown intruder. The disassociation caused by traumatic loss and the impossibility of knowing the identity of the killer flow seamlessly into the film's aesthetics so that familiar sights become strange, shopkeepers and passing pedestrians become suspects, and sound is fragmented and distorted. Architecture and haunted spaces, deserted gardens, photographs and paintings are both metaphors and physical locations in this elegant elegy to mortality

A camera speeds across the Trans Canada Highway.

The usual cast of characters set examples of proper young-lady behavior on this 12- song collection culled from the Madeline cartoon series.

“Light Magic” utilizes and examines one of the earliest photographic processes, discovered at the birth of the photographic medium: the photogram. This technique combines science and art in order to record the process of transformation. Images created through this technique are traces of light that pass through each object, leaving their mark on the film surface. Photograms bring both the maker and the viewer closer to the object, thus revealing its essence - that neither the naked eye nor the camera lens could see.

On a journey to West Africa, award-winning documentarian Mathew Welsh fashions portraits of six 'middle class' Gambians - taking us beyond stereotypes about Africa - and teaching us that we in the Developed World have a lot to learn from West Africa about how we give, how we live. These are six personalities that will resonate with a Western audience.

Parler avec quelqu'un d'aussi grand que Guy Lafleur est toujours une expérience extraordinaire. Mais lorsqu'on permet à Réjean Tremblay de mener la conversation, on entreprend un fantastique voyage d'une ampleur insoupçonnée.

Recorded live at the beautifully restored Empire Theatre in Belleville, Ontario in 2004, this DVD contains updated versions of some of my best material from "Just For Laughs", "Comedy Now" and more.

Explores how Iranians use blogs to express their ideas and feelings despite the restrictions imposed by their government.

We shaped this game, and the the game shapes Canada. No other country in the world is so tied to a game it created because... There is no game like this game.

A touching, real-life exploration of one of South Africa’s most celebrated couples, showing the deep personal cost that brought South Africa to its current triumphant harmony. Through interviews with the couple, the film becomes a discovery of the beauty of love in a changing and damaged country.

At 17, Luke Hayes-Alexander is the head chef of his family's restaurant in Kingston, Ontario. Join Luke as he defines the highs and lows of devoting his mind, body and soul to creating the food of his imagination.

You shoot me or I will shoot them. The moment of panic between these two impossible choices is replayed by taking the image through different generations of media; each frame was laser-printed, hand-painted, and finally optically printed onto 35mm. Sound by Eduardo Gonzalez.

An action film with multiple twists and turn; an almost unusual genre in Haitian cinema.